A Southern California teenager has serious bragging rights: After docking back in his home state late Thursday morning, Zac Sunderland, 17, from Thousand Oaks, can claim to be the youngest person to sail around the world alone.

Beijing — Adam van Koeverden emerged on Saturday from the darkest 24 hours of his remarkable kayaking career to find a bit of consolation and a silver lining in the K-1 500 metre race. Almost exactly a day after he suffered a shattering blow to hi...

Canadian Adam van Koeverden advanced to the final of the men's K-1 1000 metres by winning his heat on Monday. Van Koeverden, one of the most celebrated Canadians at these Games, led wire to wire in the race, finishing in three minutes, 29.622 seco...

BEIJING -- Canada is suddenly into some heavy medal at the Beijing Olympics, with a lot of help from Island athletes. In rowing, Canada won one gold medal and two bronze yesterday to fatten its overall total to seven -- two gold, one silver and fo...

BEIJING - It was a race four years in the making. The explosive pent-up energy from that many years of waiting, was unleashed in devastating fashion by the Canadian men's rowing eight Monday, as it destroyed the field to win its preliminary race a...

BEIJING- Michael Phelps' epic quest in the Olympic pool remains on track this morning, and the gold-medal machine and everybody else knows exactly why. The reason is a 32-year-old Californian named Jason Lezak, a three-time Olympian who spent most...

Stephanie Rice has claimed Australia's first medal at the Beijing Olympics, winning gold in the women's 400 individual medley in a world record time of 4.29.45. Rice blitzed her American rival and former world record holder Katie Hoff, reclaiming ...

BEIJING - Swimming eight laps in a building that looks as if it's encased in blue bubble wrap, the indomitable Michael Phelps did not merely launch his ambitious five-ring agenda here Sunday morning. He catapulted it.

BEIJING–Lying in bed the night before his big race at last year's world championships, his heart pounding, body sweating, Canadian swimmer Brent Hayden began to give up any hope of sleeping – let alone performing at any level.

BARCELONA — Toronto's Andrew Hurd won the silver medal in the men's 400-metre freestyle to open the second stop on the Mare Nostrum swimming circuit on Tuesday. Patrick Murphy of Australia won the gold medal in three minutes 51.97 seconds with Hur...

THE national women’s dragon boat team will see action in the Macau International tournament on June 8 in Nam Van Lake Nautical Centre as part of their build up for the Asian Beach Games. The team, which is composed of veteran and newcomer paddlers...